Photo: Llove exhibition via Yatzer.

Alice asked the Chesire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”
The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”
“I don’t know”, Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”

- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland.

• Tape – Summa Afrique (Oren Ambarchi remix)
  Operette (Cubicfrabric, 2004)
• Iva Bittova & Vladimir Vaclavek – Sirka V Louzi
  Bílé Inferno (Indies, 1997)
• Choying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts – Tal
  Chö (Hannibal, 1997)
• Deux Filles – She Slides
  Silence and Wisdom (Papier Mâché, 1982)
• Sogar – Selkind
  Apikal.blend (12k, 2003)

My connection was in danger—that was all. Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn’t we rather have a destiny to submit to, then, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?

- Alice Munro, The Albanian Virgin.

One of those days when I feel sabotaged from within. The world turning into a pale substance made of hubris and daydreams and obsessions. I’m trying to remain constructive by making a list of  practical things that help me breathe through these sort of days. So far the activities that have worked for me are: Running for miles until the pain and exhaustion overcomes circular thoughts. Taking a nice, thorough shower of angst. Listening to music that puts me in a halcyon frame of mind. Sleeping it over.
Tonight will be the night I kill all of my idols. It’s time to stop making excuses and move on.

Image credits: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

The sun never sets nor rises. When people think the sun is setting, it is not so; they are mistaken.
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

The sun never sets.

• Kid Loco – Relaxin’ With Cherry
  Facing The Sun (Suol, 2010)
• Red Astaire – Rollin’ Stone
  Nuggets For The Needy (House of Godis, 2006)
• Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Road to Rock N’ Roll
  Rock Art & the X-Ray Style (Hellcat, 1999)
• Lionrock – Rude Boy Rock
  City Delirious (Concrete, 1997)

The sun never rises.

• Fritz Kalkbrenner – Facing The Sun
  Facing The Sun (Suol, 2010)
• Eddy B & Tim Gunter – Bring In The Day ft. The Doors
  Dear North Carolina, Welcome Back (Gowhere Hiphop, 2010)
• Dirty Doering – I Would
  I Would (Bar25, 2010)
• Kid Cudi – She Came Along (ft. Sharam)
  Dat Kid From Cleveland (Web released mixtape, 2009)

Resignation and refusal to settle in the same breath.

Image credits: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow.
- Heraclitus

• Kid Koala & P Love – Moon River
  Nufonia Must Fall Book Tour (2003)
• Nujabes - Aruarian Dance
  Samurai Champloo: Departure (Victor, 2004)
• Bonobo - We Could Forever
  Black Sands (Ninja Tune, 2010)
• Nouveaunoise - Cinnte
  Paraphrase Accolade (Nouveanoise records, 2010)
• Emancipator - Lionheart
  Soon it Will be Cold Enough (1320 records, 2006)

I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century.

“So it isn’t the original building?” I had asked my Japanese guide.
“But yes, of course it is,” he insisted, rather surprised at my question.
“But it’s burnt down?”
“Yes. Many times.”
“And rebuilt with completely new materials.”
“But of course. It was burnt down.”
“So how can it be the same building?”
“It is always the same building.”

I had to admit to myself that this was in fact a perfectly rational point of view, it merely started from an unexpected premise. The idea of the building, the intention of it, its design, are all immutable and are the essence of the building. The intention of the original builders is what survives. The wood of which the design is constructed decays and is replaced when necessary. To be overly concerned with the original materials, which are merely sentimental souvenirs of the past, is to fail to see the living building itself.

- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See.

Photo:Brian Ferry

Then, the field of vision assumes a peculiar structure. In the center there is the favored object, fixed by our gaze; its form seems clear, perfectly defined in all its details. Around the object, as far as the limits of the field of vision, there is a zone we do not look at, but which, nevertheless, we see with an indirect, vague, inattentive vision. If it is not something to which we are accustomed, we cannot say what it is, exactly, that we see in this indirect vision.

- Ortega y Gasset. España Invertebrada.

• Sam Cooke – Lost and Lookin’
  Night beat (1963)
• Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
  I can hear the heart beating as one (Matador, 1997)
• Arto Lindsay – Titled
  Mundo Civilizado (Bar/none, 1997)
• Equatics – Ain’t No Sunshine
  Doin’ It (1972, reissue by Stones Throw, 2010)
• Ann Peebles – Come to Mama
  Tellin’ It (Hi, 1974)
• Extra Golden – It’s Not Easy
  Ok-oyot System (Thrill Jockey, 2006)

A soft lunch list. Sweet and mellow around the corners, warm and slightly sensuous in the middle. Maybe a short dinner for two.
How was your day, love?

As you might have noticed we’re changing the look of the motel. Bad timing on my part since we’ve all been a tad busy  lately. Please let us know if you find anything fishy or dusty so we can work it out as soon as possible. Thank you.

‘Tis midnight now.  The bend and broken moon,
Batter’d and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
~Joaquin Miller, Ina

• Cerati / Melero -Cozumel
  Colores Santos (1992)
• Dj Krush-Big City Lover
  Krush (Shadow Records, 1994)
• Thom Yorke-Black Swan
  The Eraser (XL, 2006)
• Modeselektor-Edgar
  Happy Birthday! (BPitch Control, 2007)
• Motor City Drum Ensemble-Raw Cuts # 6
  Raw Cuts Vol.1 (Timothy Really, 2009)
• Fudge Fingas-It’s about time
  Prime Numbers 3 (Prime Numbers, 2010
• Outkast-Prototype
  Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (La Face, 2003)

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

This Midnight Tempo is a jump to beats more rythmical but no in another tune, all is arund the midnight.
It’s bed time with the right mood.